It is challenging for parents and the state to oversee and regulate sexual behavior between young children. While every child is unique and grows in their own way, there is a general range of behaviors characteristic of child development. From a legal and policy perspective, what is the difference between age-appropriate child sexual experimentation and actions that might be characterized as child-on-child sexual grooming? As professor Daryl Higgins asks in a recent article: “At what point does sexual play and natural, typical developmental exploration become problematic? Or harmful? Or abuse?”